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New Claims in Spy Case

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Sean Gardiner

August 12, 2011

The attorney for a teenager accused of spying on his former Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi—who then committed suicide last September—asked Thursday that all charges be dropped because prosecutors withheld evidence from the grand jury.

Middlesex County, N.J., prosecutors made no attempt to present evidence to a grand jury that would have cleared Dharun Ravi in the events preceding Mr. Clementi's death and "even...